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Militants continue to fire on the defenders of the Donetsk airport, provoking them to return fire. Information Resistance group leader Dmytro Tymchuk reported this on his Facebook page. “In the Donetsk airport area units of the Russian-terrorist troops continue to fire on the positions of Ukrainian troops, trying to provoke Ukrainian...

The EU should have a single strategy towards Russia that now poses a strategic problem for the EU. The president of the European Council, Donald Tusk, said this after the EU summit in Brussels on Thursday, an Ukrinform correspondent reported. “We need to be realistic. We have to treat this as a long-term game. We must go beyond being...

The European Union will continue to support the reform process in Ukraine, is ready to take further steps to resolve the situation in eastern Ukraine and tightened sanctions against the economy of Russian-occupied Crimea. This is stated in the conclusions on Ukraine approved by the European Council on Thursday, an Ukrinform correspondent in...

Bill H.R.5859 entitled “Ukraine Freedom Support Act of 2014” has come into force after it was signed on Thursday by U.S. President Barack Obama. His statement in this regard has been posted on the website of the White House, an Ukrinform correspondent reported. “Today, I have signed H.R. 5859, the Ukraine Freedom Support Act of...

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has submitted for consideration by the Verkhovna Rada a draft law introducing amendments to certain laws of Ukraine on Ukraine’s refusal to implement non-alignment policy, the presidential press service has reported. “The non-aligned status of Ukraine, which was secured in the law of Ukraine on...

Today, I have signed H.R. 5859, the Ukraine Freedom Support Act of 2014, into law. Signing this legislation does not signal a change in the Administration’s sanctions policy, which we have carefully calibrated in accordance with developments on the ground and coordinated with our allies and partners. At this time, the Administration does not...

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has stressed the importance for Ukraine of the Polish experience on the decentralization of power and announced his intention to initiate the establishment of a constitutional commission for the introduction of constitutional amendments on the decentralization of power. He said this at a meeting with the...

China is willing to contribute to help Ukraine under the UN auspices. Ambassador of China to Ukraine Zhang Xiyun said during a meeting with Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr Hroisman. “Together with the President, government and parliament of Ukraine, we are ready to develop relations in various fields and areas, so that this cooperation...

A meeting of the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) will be held on Saturday, December 20. Ukrainian presidential press secretary Sviatoslav Tseholko told this to journalists in Lublin on Thursday, an Ukrinform correspondent in Poland reported. “The president meant that a preparatory meeting for the NSDC meeting will be...

Russian special services have kidnapped in Crimea an employee of the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office, accusing him of terrorism, the public and media liaisons department of the Prosecutor General’s Office has told Ukrinform. “An employee of the Prosecutor General’s Office, who FSB agents accused of committing a...